Offshoreonly.com - Spoiled Banana?

Ta Da! :party-smiley-020:

Thank you, Thank you Dam Donzi, well it's good to be back. Thank you.

"Boy I just flew in from the coast and my arms are tired....."

"Hey honey, I got a joke that will make your boobies fall off....OHHH...you already heard it...."

"Do you know how to get a witch pregnant? Ya F#ck her...."

Okay, okay enough stand up....

As for "spoiled banana", yes that is my old boat and Jeb's former champion racer.

I was in the middle of restoring her myself. Once I finished, Charlie McCarthy, Jr and I were going to race her together with OPA in P-5 and P-6.

That same year I learned the hard way how airlines lovingly cut salaries in half when things get tough. Two miscarriages in 12 months, and then my wife got sick, I had no choice but to throw in the towel and sell the old girl to pay for medical bills that weren't covered by insurance.

The gentleman that bought it is without a doubt one of the nicest guys I have met in a long time. He has a construction business in NC and a great family. He had been after me to buy my white banana boat for many months, but by the time he finally got the money, I had sold it.

He then started to tell me of how he learned about the banana boat and the first one he had ever seen. He said he went to the races in 1993 and met one of the racers. He was driving this crazy looking Green boat that said "spoiled banana" on the side. He never forgot how the owner of the race boat, (Jeb), told him all about the boats. He decided then that one day he would own a banana boat. When I told him I was the current owner of the race boat that he saw, it was pretty much a done deal after that.

Funny how things work out.

He bought the boat and the new trailer I had and procedeed to spend a ton of money bringing it back to better than new condidtion.

I believe the fiberglass guys from Hatteras did the work so you know it was done right. They replaced the stringers and bulkheads as well.

He is into it for about $25,000 so he is definately taking a loss at $17,900.

I think his wife wants more of a family boat now as his kids are growing up.

Thats the story.

If your gonna buy an older banana boat, then that is the one you want.

Light and strong. Entire hull is balsa cored. Having owned both a stock and a race banana boat at the same time, I can assure you that there is a big difference between the two in weight and strength.

I remember feeling like you could drop a bank safe anywhere on "spoiled banana" and it would just bounch off.

The stock boat had flex on the fore deck above the cabin area and the transom was much weaker as well.

Here is a recent pic of the cockpit: